Dr. April Baker-Bell
DR. APRIL BAKER-BELL is an award-winning transdisciplinary teacher-researcher-activist and Associate Professor of Language, Culture, and Justice in Education at the University of Michigan in the Marsal Family School of Education. She is faculty in Educational Studies and the Joint Program in English and Education (JPEE). Dr. Baker-Bell was formerly an Associate Professor of Language, Literacy, and English Education at Michigan State University (MSU) and an Adjunct Associate Professor at MSU’s Center for Bioethics and Social Justice in the College of Human Medicine. Before joining the professoriate, Dr. Baker-Bell was a high school English Language Arts Teacher in Detroit. She also served as adjunct faculty at Wayne State University and Oakland Community College.
Dr. Baker- Bell is an international leader in conversations on Black Language education, and her research interrogates the intersections of Black Language and literacies, anti-Black racism, and antiracist pedagogies. Dr. Baker-Bell's latest research project involves collaborating with healthcare scholars and researchers to develop, implement and study antiracist medical curriculum interventions that support healthcare professionals with developing an antiracist praxis for confronting and reducing racial bias and anti-Black racism in medical and healthcare institutions.
Baker-Bell’s award- winning book, Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, brings together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism (a term Baker-Bell coined) and white linguistic supremacy. The book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts, and it captures what Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy looks like in community with Black youth. Linguistic Justice features a range of multimodal examples and practices through instructional maps, charts, artwork, and stories that reflect the urgent need for antiracist language pedagogies in our current social and political climate.
Baker-Bell is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including the 2021 Coalition for Community Writing Outstanding Book Award, the 2021 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s New Directions Fellowship, the 2021 Michigan State University’s Community Engagement Scholarship Award and the 2021 Distinguished Partnership Award for Community-Engaged Creative Activity, the 2020 NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, the 2020 Theory Into Practice Article of the Year Award, the 2019 Michigan State University Alumni Award for Innovation & Leadership in Teaching and Learning, the 2018 AERA Language and Social Processes Early Career Scholar Award, and many more.
Address: University of Michigan
Dr. Baker- Bell is an international leader in conversations on Black Language education, and her research interrogates the intersections of Black Language and literacies, anti-Black racism, and antiracist pedagogies. Dr. Baker-Bell's latest research project involves collaborating with healthcare scholars and researchers to develop, implement and study antiracist medical curriculum interventions that support healthcare professionals with developing an antiracist praxis for confronting and reducing racial bias and anti-Black racism in medical and healthcare institutions.
Baker-Bell’s award- winning book, Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, brings together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism (a term Baker-Bell coined) and white linguistic supremacy. The book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts, and it captures what Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy looks like in community with Black youth. Linguistic Justice features a range of multimodal examples and practices through instructional maps, charts, artwork, and stories that reflect the urgent need for antiracist language pedagogies in our current social and political climate.
Baker-Bell is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including the 2021 Coalition for Community Writing Outstanding Book Award, the 2021 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s New Directions Fellowship, the 2021 Michigan State University’s Community Engagement Scholarship Award and the 2021 Distinguished Partnership Award for Community-Engaged Creative Activity, the 2020 NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, the 2020 Theory Into Practice Article of the Year Award, the 2019 Michigan State University Alumni Award for Innovation & Leadership in Teaching and Learning, the 2018 AERA Language and Social Processes Early Career Scholar Award, and many more.
Address: University of Michigan
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in the classroom to contextualize the contemporary linguistic inequities
that Black students experience in English Language Arts (ELA) classroom.
Next, the author describes anti-black linguistic racism and interrogates the
notion of academic language. Following this, the author provides an
ethnographic snapshot that shows how Black students in a ninth grade
English Language Arts (ELA) class perceptions of Black Language reflected
internalized anti-black linguistic racism. The author offers Anti-Racist Black
Language Pedagogy as an approach that English Language Arts teachers
can implement in an effort to dismantle anti-black linguistic racism and
white cultural and linguistic hegemony in their classrooms using Angie
Thomas’ (2017) novel The Hate U Give. The author concludes with
thoughts about how an Anti-Racist Black Language pedagogy can help
ELA students develop useful critical capacities.
In
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A crucial resource for educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students in language and literacy education, writing studies, sociology of education, sociolinguistics, and critical pedagogy, this book features a range of multimodal examples and practices through instructional maps, charts, artwork, and stories that reflect the urgent need for antiracist language pedagogies in our current social and political climate.
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in the classroom to contextualize the contemporary linguistic inequities
that Black students experience in English Language Arts (ELA) classroom.
Next, the author describes anti-black linguistic racism and interrogates the
notion of academic language. Following this, the author provides an
ethnographic snapshot that shows how Black students in a ninth grade
English Language Arts (ELA) class perceptions of Black Language reflected
internalized anti-black linguistic racism. The author offers Anti-Racist Black
Language Pedagogy as an approach that English Language Arts teachers
can implement in an effort to dismantle anti-black linguistic racism and
white cultural and linguistic hegemony in their classrooms using Angie
Thomas’ (2017) novel The Hate U Give. The author concludes with
thoughts about how an Anti-Racist Black Language pedagogy can help
ELA students develop useful critical capacities.
In
A crucial resource for educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students in language and literacy education, writing studies, sociology of education, sociolinguistics, and critical pedagogy, this book features a range of multimodal examples and practices through instructional maps, charts, artwork, and stories that reflect the urgent need for antiracist language pedagogies in our current social and political climate.
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